| | | | | | Dale Bargen | - 090918 PAHRUMP NEVADA
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- Sep 18, 2009
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Photos by Alice, Claire, Dale - photos: 111 (18 MB)
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| | Dale Bargen | - 090912 TULSA
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- Sep 12, 2009
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Alice, Jenny + Dale visited Al + Laura - photos: 93 (13 MB)
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| | Dale Bargen | - 090727 LEA
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- photos: 64 (9 MB)
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| | Dale Bargen | - 081220 LEA'S LIGHTS
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- Dec 20, 2008
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Lea decorated the guest house - photos: 2 (276 kB)
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| | Dale Bargen | - 080904 HELEN'S PHOTOS
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- Sep 4, 2008
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Helen's camera; Elda, Avon Lake, Ione, Isaac's apartment - photos: 30 (4 MB)
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| | Dale Bargen | - 080903 VINEWOOD HOUSE
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- Sep 3, 2008
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Family home at 187 Vinewood, Avon Lake, OH - photos: 4 (638 kB)
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| | Dale Bargen | - 080903 JOHN RUNYAN
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- Sep 3, 2008
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John Runyan, retired teacher, Avon Lake HS - photos: 2 (222 kB)
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| | Dale Bargen | - 080903 IONE GRAVES
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- Sep 3, 2008
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Ione Graves, Age 93 - photos: 41 (4 MB)
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| | Dale Bargen | - 080901 Kayla + Jory
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- Sep 1, 2008
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Dinner with Kayla + Jory + Dakota + Chris + Jill at El Vaquero restaurant - photos: 20 (2 MB)
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| | Dale Bargen | - 080802 ISAAC'S APARTMENT
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- Aug 2, 2008
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Isaac's loft apartment in Carrolton, GA at W.GA university.
More photos added Sep 1; new curtains from Halle - photos: 31 (4 MB)
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| | Dale Bargen | - 080625 LEA'S BIRTHDAY
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- Jun 25, 2008
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Brunch at IHOP Dinner at Houston's
- photos: 6 (604 kB)
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| | Dale Bargen | - 080531 MARLENE SPRINGSTON
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- May 31, 2008
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Visit with Marlene Springston Gainesville, GA home
Saw fox, eagle, another fox and sunset over Lake Lanier - photos: 9 (1 MB)
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| | Dale Bargen | - 080518 FLORIDA SEAGROVE BEACH
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- May 18, 2008
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Dale's photos
See additional album below of Ines Ortiz Price's photos below.
Photos are in order of 'most-recent-first'
- photos: 1137 (170 MB)
- Comments: 28
| | Dale Bargen | - 080518 FLORIDA - INES PHOTOS
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- May 18, 2008
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Seagrove Beach photos by Ines Ortiz Price
See additional album above of Dale's photos - photos: 178 (28 MB)
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| | Dale Bargen | - 080422 FIRE
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- Apr 22, 2008
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The last major burn pile in the pasture - photos: 14 (3 MB)
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| | Dale Bargen | - 080411 KANSAS TRIP
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- Apr 11, 2008
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Visit with Myrt's family, Joyce + Paul in Concordia, walked the trail at Bethel, toured the sculpture park in Wichita (click on MORE ...more below). http://stubbornfacts.us/random/almost_forgotten_history On July 19, 1958, several black teenagers, members of the local NAACP chapter, entered the downtown Dockum Drug Store (then the largest drug store chain in the state) and sat down at the lunch counter. They were ignored. They kept coming back and sitting at the counter, from before lunch through the dinner hour, at least twice a week for the next several weeks. They sat quietly, creating no disturbance, but refusing to leave without being served.
The store tried to wait them out by ignoring them. They kept coming back and sitting there, silently, day after day, waiting to be served. On one occasion three police officers tried to coerce and intimidate the teenagers to leave, and succeeded. But they came back, and the police did not return. They were breaking no law, only a store policy, and the store was not willing to challenge them directly.
A group of local white toughs came by trying to intimidate them. The police were called to break it up but left immediately without challenging the whites, saying they had instructions to keep their hands off. After an emergency phone call a group of local black men arrived, armed, to defend the protesters. The white youths retreated, leaving the store.
And the young people kept coming back and sitting there at the lunch counter, silently, day after day, waiting to be served.
They asked for help and support from the national NAACP, but the national organization refused to endorse or even acknowledge their actions. The confrontational tactic was against NAACP policy. The national newswires picked it up and the story went out on the national wire, but few papers ran it and it quickly vanished.
On August 11, while the early arrivals were sitting at the counter waiting for their friends to show, a white man around 40 walked in and looked at them for several minutes. Then he looked at the store manager, and said, simply, "Serve them. I'm losing too much money." He then walked back out. That man was the owner of the Dockum drug store chain.
That day the lawyer [Chester Lewis--see updates below] for the local NAACP branch called the store's state offices, and was told by the chain vice-president that "he had instructed all of his managers, clerks, etc., to serve all people without regard to race, creed or color." State-wide. They had won, completely. Their actions inspired others, and the sit-in movement spread to Oklahoma City. By the middle of 1959, the national NAACP was losing disaffected members for refusing to endorse the scattered but spreading sit-in protests, gave in, and sponsored the Greensboro sit-ins.
Nineteen months before the Greensboro sit-ins that have been credited with being the start of the civil rights sit-in movement, it really began at a downtown drug store in Wichita, Kansas. The Dockum sit-ins were largely ignored by the NAACP in their archives, probably out of embarrasment, and were unknown even to many civil rights historians. That error was corrected by the NAACP this summer.
Something important started there in Wichita near the corner of Broadway and Douglas. Those who started it were almost forgotten by history. Almost, but not quite. And today, on a small plaza tucked in between two buildings in downtown Wichita, Kansas is a sculpture of a lunch counter with several people sitting at it. It has no plaque to explain it. Some day soon, it will.
http://www.kansastravel.org/douglasavenuesculptures.htm A recreation of a dimestore counter, placed in Lewis Reflection Square Park, which was once the site of a F. W. Woolworth store. Coincidentally, an event in the integration of the Wichita area happened at the nearby Dockum Drug Store in 1958. This sculpture was not built to specifically memorialize that incident, but the Georgia Gerber says that "the black man and his grandson were placed at the counter as an intentional acknowledgment of the Dockum Drug Store sit-ins and the peaceful integration it brought about."
Questions: dbargen@aol.com - photos: 49 (9 MB)
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| | Dale Bargen | - 080331 INES + FAMILY VISIT
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- Mar 31, 2008
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Ines, Bernie, Iris, Cecilia, Daniela, Peter
On their way to Tennessee - photos: 30 (4 MB)
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| | Dale Bargen | - 071227 SCANS
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- Dec 27, 2007
- photos: 31 (5 MB)
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| | Dale Bargen | - 071129 HELEN TRAVELS
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- Nov 29, 2007
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Helen traveled to Atlanta, Washington DC, Lancaster PA - photos: 6 (1 MB)
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| | Dale Bargen | - 071124 ALICE VISIT
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- Nov 24, 2007
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Photos by Alice Rossington
- photos: 27 (83 MB)
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| | Dale Bargen | - 070706 hb
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- photos: 64 (1 MB)
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| | Dale Bargen | - 070420 DODGE DAYTONA
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- Apr 20, 2007
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Budget Rental Car: Who knew? - photos: 33 (8 MB)
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| | Dale Bargen | - 070407 Alice's Filly
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- Apr 7, 2007
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Born April 3, 2007 to Sky Sadie - photos: 1 (522 kB)
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| | Dale Bargen | - 060702 LEA
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- Jul 2, 2006
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| | Dale Bargen | - 060623 GUARNIERI DUCK LAKE
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- Jun 23, 2006
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Guarnieri siblings met at Duck Lake June 23-24, 2006 to scatter Dorothy + Glen's ashes at the lake where they courted as teenagers...
Photos by Dale Bargen Questions: DBargen@aol.com - photos: 213 (43 MB)
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| | Dale Bargen | - 060115 SH
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- Jan 15, 2006
- photos: 5 (619 kB)
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| | Dale Bargen | - 060115 KITCHEN COUNTER
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- Jan 15, 2006
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Replaced the counter with an adjustable, moveable table - photos: 4 (499 kB)
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| | Dale Bargen | - 060113 Lowes
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- Jan 13, 2006
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After the dryer delivery - photos: 4 (485 kB)
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| | Dale Bargen | - 051130 Isaac Birthday
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- Nov 30, 2005
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Mo Mo Ya Japanese Restaurant - photos: 29 (4 MB)
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| | Dale Bargen | - 050327 remodel
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- Mar 27, 2005
- photos: 26 (15 MB)
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| | Dale Bargen | - 040807 HALLE at GSU
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- Aug 7, 2004
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Halle and Krista at GA State University - photos: 14 (10 MB)
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| | Dale Bargen | - 031122 Jan's visit
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- Nov 22, 2003
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On her way from Austin to DC - photos: 12 (7 MB)
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